Earlier this year, Windham paramedics assisted in the extraordinary birth of Oaklyn Ruby Morrison in an amusment park parking lot.

Around midday on Jan. 13, the Windham Fire Department received a call about a woman in labor pulled over in a sedan on the side of the road in North Windham, according to paramedic Brian Pond.

The family was driving from Casco to Northern Light Mercy Hospital in Portland, and realized they were not going to make it before the baby came.

Two ambulances, as well as a utility truck, were dispatched to the scene. A crew of two firefighters, three EMTs and a paramedic student, Louise Hauschild, met the family at a parking lot near Seacoast Adventure. There, they moved the mother, Kaylyn Lorrain, to an ambulance, where Hauschild took over.

Pond said the team did not expect to deliver the baby in the field, as labor, particularly for a first child, typically takes a long time. He said he told Lorrain she would be good to deliver when they got to the hospital, but Hauschild said the baby needed to be delivered sooner. Ultimately, the baby arrived in what Pond described as a “textbook, easy, fantastic kind of event.”

Lorrain said giving birth on the side of the road was “hectic” and “all over the place,”and thanked the firefighters and EMTs, as well as her mother, for helping her through the delivery process.

Lorrain said the experience, from leaving her home to calling 911 to delivering her first child, took just 23 minutes, with the baby being born two minutes after she got in the ambulance. Four months later, she said it felt like part of a movie, and she can’t wait to share it with her daughter when she is older.

“I had a very detailed birth plan,” said Lorrain, “and this was not part of it by any means, but everything turned out perfectly.”

Pond said the ambulance would receive a stork sticker to commemorate the birth, and asked if the family wanted to put the stickers on the ambulance,which they did during a visit to the station on Monday, May 18.

Pond said Monday’s visit was the first time the department had held a “ceremony” to honor the placing of the stickers on the ambulance.